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queenb This is as clear as I can get the pictures. I was inside taking it through a window and screen. Close enough for me.
Mr.ING thinks it was a chicken/rat snake. Sometimes we see them in the barn and out in the pasture.

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Originally Posted by queenb;4062391;

Just guessing, but I think the wasps probably did sting the snake, but the scales would protect it unless a stinger went under the scale and into the skin, which would be unlikely. Remember snakes even have a transparent scale covering their eyes. I wish I could see the head to see what kind of snake it is. I think it might be a hognose, because the wasp larvae are something it would eat. If it is, that's about as big as they get if i'm judging right by this picture.

That is one awesome "just guess".

I've seen hawks hunt snakes and carry them off, I've seen ants eating dead snakes, but I've never seen snakes hunt (yet).

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More than happy to pass on that info.
I took my dog to the new house today and let him walk me around the whole yard, then let him explore the house while the plumber/furnace man looked around the basement with me. I hope he (and the cat) do well with the new transition.

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The dog is a Japanese Chin and came with the name "Taro" which means "boy dog"... or maybe just "boy", I forget. The cat I kept from a litter we had from our cat who's long gone now. She was born the morning of my opening for my one-woman art show. One side of her head was black with a white spot and one side was white with a black spot, so we named her "Yin-yang"... even though I know white cats work the opposite of dalmations. They're born with a black spot that goes away. So she's totally white now.